Mass Deportations and Unintended Consequences

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Mass deportations and economic activity. What it means. Again, sometimes it takes a while, but the mainstream media eventually catches up to my reasoning here. Anyway, a couple stories over the past several days in regards to mass deportations. And I do get a lot of blowback when it comes to this, because there is a camp out there that, you know, deport everybody.

We need to have mass deportations. I can’t believe Trump is pulling back on this or upset because Trump is starting to recognize that, hey, whoa, we better slow this thing down. There’s something that, again, many people fail to understand. It’s called unintended consequences. Unintended consequences. And I think I presented this last week on the program. Let’s pretend I have, you know, Thanos’s Infinity Gauntlet glove, and I snap my fingers and.

All illegals in the United States, pow, they go right back to their home country.

Do you have any idea? Do you have any idea what would happen? The absolute anarchy that would transpire here in this country? And I explained it. Why do you think ICE is not rolling into Manhattan? They’re not rolling into Boston. They’re most certainly not rolling into Miami.

and raiding restaurants, okay? Not going to happen. Again, you have, people really don’t have any idea, quite frankly, the amount of people that are, that’s why they’re not here legally, that are working and keeping businesses going. I explain this.

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A week or two ago here on the program, what happened here in the state of Florida, all of a sudden, the Wall Street Journal decides to report on it. Florida’s economy has been one of the great success stories in recent decades with robust jobs growth. But in the last year, employment has slowed. Could the cause be a misguided immigration enforcement policy? The Sunshine State’s job growth was consistently among the highest in the United States during the pandemic.

and the prior decade thanks to low taxes and a pro-business environment. COVID lockdowns in progressive states supercharged Florida’s population and workforce growth. But in May 2023, Florida Republicans passed legislation aimed at countering Joe Biden’s porous border policies. Again, we talked about this here on the program. The laws centerpiece required private employers with 25 or more employees. Again,

25 or more. Again, that was their little carve out there. Forcing them to use e-Verify to confirm work authorization of new hires violations would result in a thousand dollar daily fine and suspension of business license. And again, dealing with an issue. Okay. You know, we got to deal with the border issue. We’re going to handle this thing. Open borders. And there’s no doubt.

There’s no doubt that the surge in migrants here, without a doubt, burdens communities. Yeah, I’ve talked about it in the past here on the program in regards to education. Imagine being a school teacher and all of sudden, you you have to handle all of these kids that come into your classroom that don’t speak a lick of English. Anyway.

The E-Verify mandate, this is the journal saying, makes it harder for migrants to work to support themselves and it adds a burden on employees. E-Verify can also be unreliable because it relies on federal records that aren’t always up to date. Now here I have a massive disagreement with the Wall Street Journal, which has always been pro-migrant. Okay? I am pro-immigration, legal immigration. I am not pro-migrant. This is the disconnect.

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Okay, makes it harder for migrants to work to support themselves. Give me a break. Okay, this is one big fat line of bullshit. It’s basically slave labor. Not everywhere. Not everywhere, but I’m telling you, I’m telling you, you take a drive through, I have, okay, some of these agriculture areas in the state of Florida, and you’ll see.

You’ll see again, churches all down here constantly, you know, raising funds, you know, baby formula, clothes, shoes, all this for migrant workers. Adds a burden on employers. Yeah, okay, so it does. So it does. On federal records that aren’t always up to date, we’ll make them up to date for crying out loud.

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US Labor Department suggests that Florida’s E-Verify law has harmed job growth. Again, yeah, it can harm job growth in the sense that certain legal jobs are not going to be created because it doesn’t have the migrant worker jobs to go along and finish up a project, whether it be a construction project, whatever it may be. That most certainly is

the case and it’s hit the state without a doubt. Again, this is interesting. Employers in the states say they’re struggling to find workers that they can employ legally, non-citizens made up one third, wow.

one-third of Florida’s construction workforce, nearly half of farm workers. Again, for all you people that are mass support everybody, what do you think would happen?

Do you, where are the farm workers going to come from? And I’m with you. I’m with you with prevailing wages and all that. I’m all for that. I agree with you. But making all these workers come and disappear doesn’t mean that you’re gonna get people to get up and fill these jobs. It’s not going to happen. Period, the end.

So deal with this in an intelligent manner.

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have work permits to fill these jobs. You know, I think I talked about this here on the program. Well, you know, it’s in the same region. got the Olympics right now, Milan and up in Cortina and Lombardi region and big milk producers in that area as well.

Italians were having a difficult time finding workers to handle their dairy, and the cows and whatnot. And what they did was they imported legally and made them residents and then citizens eventually workers from Sikhs from India that were well versed in this and kept that industry afloat.

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What are you gonna do? want the farms to shut down?

For all of you, deport everybody. Mass deportation. What is your solution to this problem? Huh?

And again, be honest with yourself before you think it through. OK, what is your solution? Farmers say that many foreign workers left the state after the law passed. One farmer told Spectrum News that he needed more workers to pick strawberries, that he purposely limited the size of his workforce to less than 25 workers to avoid having to use e-verify. Again, we talked about this here on the show when they put that forward. We said that’s all these people are going to do.

That’s all they’re going to do. Again, we have to find a way. There has to be a way to slowly but surely, again, I’m not saying allowing people to vote. We talk about not getting public assistance, living off the taxpayer. But would you like the economy to grow? Again, correct me if I’m wrong.

farming and food and national, a bit of a national security concern. Interesting as well, Collum talking about South Texas. Basically issues with various different raids that have been taking place in South Texas. Again,

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Construction delays threaten higher prices for buyers lower margins for builders builders say they just hope to break even on delayed projects Material suppliers are laying off employees one concrete company filed for bankruptcy protection sending a drop-off in sales Because of you know, basically is blaming on immigration Okay They are basically taking everyone in there working whether they have proper documentation or not. This is from the South Texas builders Association

And these are, know, gotta say, I voted for Trump, but this is not working out. Again, this is where, you know, if everybody can put down their horse blinders and come up with a solution to the problem, we have a problem. We have a problem. We have, again, way too many illegals here in this country. Okay, that can be true. That can be true. What also can be true is we need,

more workers in this country to do these jobs. Both of those things can be true at the exact same time. So might we think we might be able to get some sort of solution to that problem? One would think. One would think, but in today’s day and age, it’s much easier to rage people and get everybody banging heads with one another, quite frankly. Watchdog on wallstreet.com.